skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: A URL shortener that lets you change the destination source
@deveshb15 and I built a URL shortener because the existing ones don't let you change the destination source once you create it.

The main benefit is really just the fact that once you claim a link, you don't need to claim another and you can change the destination that link leads to as many times as you want - we need this a lot and don't want to pay a monthly fee for this.

We used nextjs for frontend and backend, firebase for authentication and database, and used middleware in nextjs to the redirect url to desired location.

Give it a go and let me know if you have any feedback.

Thank you
Scholarship on the Quran means what, to you, exactly?

To me it just sounds that he's an expert in convincing people that it is god's will to implement his agenda. Taking the Quran as a source of absolute truth and then taking the further step of handing the reins of interpretation to some "preeminent scholar" is a recipe for exactly the kind of extremism that you see plaguing the Islamic world.

Your and my claims about what Qaradawi is are not mutually exclusive, and are in fact deeply correlated.
I would pay for it by the 21st time.

That was my point. If I'm using something for only the 2nd time, then statistically it's very unknown whether I'll ever use a 3rd time. If I paid for it now, there's a good chance I'd be throwing away my money.

Whereas if I've used something 20 times, then it's extremely likely I'll be using it another 20, 50, 100, or 1,000 times. It's clearly worth paying for after 20 times.
Paying to keep the tool running for the few moments you need can be extremely expensive to pay for those moments only.

Often it's an investment in your life to free up time. You can always get and earn more money, but it's impossible to add more time to your life.

I agree not everything has to be a SaaS though, some are better as usage based, or a basic fee plus usage/overage.
Oh, thanks. The table was unlabeled and I missed that in the text.

Hundreds of nanos isn't great but it's certainly better than milliseconds.
This isn't the Matrix. Life is almost never binary.
A couple of other good points vs Canada: most fixed-rate US mortgages don’t have a prepayment penalty, and many offer the option to “recast”, which means you can make a lump-sum payment and reamortize your loan while keeping the rate and end date the same. This has the effect of lowering your monthly payment and is often used as an alternative to refinancing if you’re buying and selling a home in sequence.
The Collapse of the News Industry Is Taking Its Soul Down with It
That is much better than the Linux model!

Not only is there less crawling around looking for symbols, you're no longer in trouble when two libraries export the same symbol.

Especially given libraries are found by name, and symbols by name, where "type information" or "is that actually the library I wanted" are afterthoughts.
Are those numbers comparable to caffeine?
Show HN: Tenv – OpenTofu, Terraform and Terragrunt version manager
tenv, a versatile version manager for OpenTofu, Terraform and Terragrunt, written in Go. Our tool simplifies the complexity of handling different versions of these powerful tools, ensuring developers and DevOps professionals can focus on what matters most - building and deploying efficiently.

tenv is a successor of tofuenv and tfenv.

tenv is tailored for terraform/tofu and support of many specific language-based features, it's not just a version switcher like asdf.

tenv is available in brew/aur/choco and many other package managers.
Regulation and innovation rarely make good business partners.
I think most of that can be attributed based on the land locked neighbors, no state actors neighboring the US have malicious intent ( eg. Russia, China, Iran, ...)
And an equal amount of "was correct in 2009 when the answer was accepted but is no longer [the optimal answer | correct at all]". There's usually another answer that's current+correct, often with 1/10th the votes. Any question posted in the past half-decade has been immediately closed as "duplicate", even if it points out the other question is no longer working. 5 moderators agreed with the close so they must be right.

This already has meant SO dropped out of relevance for anything that's long-lived but evolving. I assume it still works for brand-new stuff where there are no apparent duplicates. It works for unchanging old stuff (and the absolute basics of programming), because the old answers are still relevant. But take anything like Java, C#, Python, or Javascript that have evolved radically since SO's inception and the answers are often garbage.

IMHO, SO needs to solve this to not die... if it isn't already too late.

I can't tell from the article, but a logical use of AI on SO would be to answer questions, tailored to each user, just like people do with ChatGPT etc today. However this means there's now no new questions even feeding in, let alone new/updated answers. So the training data for the AI becomes increasingly out-of-date/wrong. I don't see how this solves the existential problem SO has, but maybe it will delay their demise a bit.
Those examples don’t look confusing except there being more than one way.
Independent in that they're not beholden to either side: the Israelis or the Palestinians (any faction). They're a major international news organization that has people on the ground.

The major threat to Al Jazeera journalists over the last several years has come from the IDF, not from Palestinians. There are plenty of examples of the IDF killing Al Jazeera journalists, but I'm not aware of any cases of them being killed by Hamas.
It was safe for us nerds in the 1980s. It is not so safe in 2024 if you're one of the 20% of guys who get 80% of the attention from girls:

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-sextortion-teen-suic... (archive: https://archive.ph/VTw6O)
I just purchased a Toyota and it was comforting when the US dealership sent me a check for ~$15 "because your state taxes didn't end up costing as much as we had anticipated."

>they'll be the first place I'll look, and probably where I buy, even if I might be able to save $10 buying something somewhere else.

Absolutely, but in my experience on the pricing level of automobiles $xx,xxx...
Not a single article but worth sharing anyway: https://readsomethingwonderful.com
Location: Houston, Tx

* Remote: Yes

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* Technologies: React.js, Next.js Vue.js Typescript, HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Node.js, REST,MySQL,PostgreSQL, Docker, Azure, AWS, Agile, Git, Github, Playwright, QA, UI/UX,CI/CD

* Résumé/CV:https://docs.google.com/document/d/19dhr91VFgYRoRAtRdVE0nQQ6...

* Github: https://github.com/DMC09

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* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dharminchauhan/

* Summary: Software Engineer with 2.5 years of experience working at a startup for SaaS based mobile ordering solutions. Expertise in Front End Engineering and QA. Seeking a larger Front End or Full-stack role
Amazing thinker. His collaborative book with Hofstader, The Mind's I, has left a profound impression.
Tesla launches another round of layoffs
It doesn't store energy in the sense that all that work you did compressing it doesn't increase its internal energy. It just has the energy it started with, floating around in the atmosphere. Now, some of that energy can be converted to work, if the air is adiabatically expanded, but particularly at high compression it's not large compared to the energy that went into compressing the air (and that was dissipated as heat when the hot compressed air was cooled.)
Rodney Merrill is the only who translated both in english hexameters. If just one there are a lot of translations https://johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/homer/homertranslations....
is Element like Apples MainStage? https://www.apple.com/mainstage/
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His application – which is currently pending – aims to “provide a system that can consistently toast bread products to the desired level of browning”, using a neural network trained on thousands of images of toasted bread taken directly through the toaster. Despite initial interest from Dualit, Sage Appliances and Kenwood, the device is yet to come to market.

“I’ve forgotten what burnt toast is. It just hasn’t happened,” he said.
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(I'm going to assume you meant "interesting to a boy as opposed to a girl". If I'm incorrect my apologies).

I only have boys so do not have personal experience but I read/heard that girls do and will continue to read more than boys at any age, and the gap is getting worse starting around that time (7-8-9). I do think that some books are directed at girls, but I do see a lot of books directed at boys too (though not recently, Hardy Boys was a loooong time ago). It's just boys are less interested regardless. Not really sure what to do about that honestly...
There was a pretty good NPR piece some time back by a reporter who was quitting smoking. The reporter went on a pretty deep dive of this popular quitting-smoking self-help company that was based on some dude’s book, the gist of which was that everything about nicotine making you feel good and perform better is bullshit and the trouble with is entirely a mindset thing, and an irrational craving for something that only makes you feel worse, in fact.

The piece entertains this and struggles with it for a while, before turning to experts on the biochemistry of nicotine.

TL;DR: “omg, lol, of course it makes you feel awesome and enhances performance on mental tasks in particular, here’s a list of the exact ways it affects your body to 100% for-sure do those things, that’s part of why it’s so incredibly difficult to quit for many people”
I don't know if this is the same company, but this thing called Nordic Spirit is being heavily marketed in the UK. It's just snus, changed just enough to get past the 1992 ban on oral tobacco products.

About half of my YT adverts are for it right now, and I have never used nicotine products so clearly they are not targeting existing users. It makes me so uneasy because this sort of advertising has been illegal in the UK for as long as I can remember, and they have managed to skirt around the rules so easily.
Rivals dispute AGI House moniker
I do have the addiction and I have quit before but it’s really hard. That was when I smoked cigarettes and needed to quit because I was severely harming my body. I now vape with a 100% vegetable glycerin and nicotine mix that is fully unflavored so I haven’t found the need to quit again because frankly the health risks are very low.
Yeah, it is definitely an off the cuff incomplete idea. I think you’d want to structure things pretty carefully. Maybe somehow classify countries into: Hostile, Competitor, Unaligned, Friendly, and Too Friendly.

Maybe just ignore Hostile, try to find enough competitors to ensure at least one will review, require a couple unaligneds and friendlies, and then consider “too friendly” to be the same as your own country.

Like from a US point of view, if the US and the UK agree on something… I mean, that only counts as one point, right? We are too close. But if like half of the EU and India agree, there’s enough competing self-interest to let it through (keeping in mind that it is all open source, nobody wants to be caught doing something sketchy). And if China, the US, and any other non-5-eyes country agree on something, it must be fine. (I picked these countries because I think they are pretty uncontroversial, I’m definitely not going to try and list who’d be in the hostile group, that’s just asking for unproductive political squabbling).

Multiple possible paths, no veto.

But I have no idea how to fix the problem of: some countries look more or less trustworthy from others’ point of view; I think we can easily suggest a plan from the US point of view, but I have no idea how to get everyone to agree on what the actual state of a single source code repository is, since commits have dependencies. Maybe it needs to be more like a package manager.
The prefix extra- just means beyond/outside. It lives outside Earth (Terra) so it's extraterrestrial. Though if you said it's not diverged enough to be a separate species that would be a better objection.
> Would you also say you have no right to live in the United States, and it is only your personal belief?

I'm not American so I would of course agree. But I believe I have a right to live in my current state because those rights are granted to me by the law. The distinction with Zionism is that the right for "the Jews" (i use quotes because of course this is not an homogeneous group, just as ideal) to claim, inhabit and govern Israel as their own is ordained by God. I find this as contrary to the ideals of equality and akin to totalitarianism.

> But if you single out Jews as being the only people in the world that are not allowed to have a state...

Wow there, that's quite a leap. I'm not saying anyone should be made stateless, only that if they're claiming to do the whole democracy thing then they need to recognise the right of their neighbours not to live by the rules of their Gods.

> then you are indeed being antisemitic

I would appreciate if you asked me to clarify when I was saying instead of delivering uncharitable readings, presumed arguments, and conclusions like these.
The simple solution is superior if it does everything you need. If it doesn't, the complex solution suddenly becomes a lot more desirable.
AWS thinks custom models are its secret weapon in the AI wars
AI Controlled Toasting Appliance
> 8 years ago the cloud did not effectively exist yet.

What? AWS EC2 is 17 years old.
Ok, I sell self-hosted software with a one-time payment (no subscription). Isn't a 14 days trial enough? Would a 30-day trial do better? Or a 60 days one?

So far, people who start using the trial usually convert, so lengthening the trial will likely only decrease this. What it could improve, is the number of customers who are willing to start using the trial, thinking 60-days is a lot of free usage.
I don't see why.

A time-based trial records the date you started to use it somewhere.

A usage-based trial records the number of times you've done something somewhere.

I can't see why there would be any difference in reliability. The mechanism of recording and checking some value is identical.
Audio Hijack is good if you want to add some VST plugin processing.

A good usecase is having a nice mic for your Zoom calls or Youtube videos and doing basic noise filtering, compression and limiting on it w/o having to run a full DAW in the background.

Otherwise Loopback does everything else like piping specific sound sources from one app to another, without the rest of system audio.
debt for housing, which is a depreciating asset in normal times (housing wears out, land may become more expensive) is not a great idea, but it has been normalized and when you have negative real rates & inflationary policies, as we had for over a decade, it can make a lot of sense

debt for productive activity in general makes sense if it isn't compounding (mortgages act like simple interest, btw, although it's complicated since you pay more interest at the start of the loan and so if you move within the first five years you've paid almost entirely interest on the home)

debt for consumption is always parasitic

that's why it's insane how hard it is to get a business loan and how easy it is to get a credit card: usurers want suckers, not shared risk on productive investments
One reason not to do that is the sales and marketing lead time. Every time marketing changes something there’s a 2 week lag before they can measure the conversion impact. With your usage-based trial concept that lag time becomes indefinite.
Quantum gravity gets a new test
Yes, that's how old style CAES systems worked (although those were not combined cycle). There are two of them.

http://www.eseslab.com/ESsensePages/CAES-page
Show HN: A database of flags from around the world
Sorry, I stand corrected. All of Google's success is due to luck, and none of it due to the talent and skill of their people or the decisions they made.
There's an incredible documentary on this. The scale of the engineering, the secrecy of the project, and the environmental challenges are wild.

Azorian: The Raising of the K-129 -- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2042455/
What level of support is being guaranteed to the drivers that upstream has stopped supporting? If a bug crops up, does AlmaLinux intend to patch things in-house?

Disclaimer: I volunteer my time at AlmaLinux/am part of the project.
Hi friends, I'm from tofuutils team and our team would like to support OpenTofu projects. If you want to do it with us, you're welcome. Now we're working on tenv which is used at many real projects instead of tfenv or tfswitch. In the near feature, we're going to create a replacement for tflint, because its became BSL as well as TErraform.
While I think Dave can be helpful for some, having 30 year old loan makes more financial sense if you are financed at 3%. You can pay it off sooner if you want.

The further you get from the initial purchase date the dollar will have a lower value, and in theory you should be making more money.

Plus, even tbills are returning over 5% and are state tax exempt.
Complexity isn't evil, but hiding in it some secondary interest of who sold that complexity likely is (because of Murphy's Law applied to human psychology?).

Also it has a protective corollary: the interested parts in preserving complexity because injecting lets say a much needed and correct new simpler alternative would either reveal the aforementioned dubious interests or reduce the incumbent's authority (power), hence, all the incentives are set to boycott a system improvement from the top.
This self-labeling definitely adds to a… picture I have of the guy, from other practices (like extensive personality testing of job applicants, unusual questions about background)
Another clickbait article title. Shame on you BBC.

Not fake.

"Balsamic vinegar that is not labelled "tradizionale" (traditional) is a blend of wine vinegar and grape must, made from grapes with no particular provenance and aged in wooden or steel barrels for just a few months."
There are lots of ways that stock in food and energy companies could go down while prices go up. A drought or pipeline disruption come to mind.
Which techniques have you developed to deal with this problem?
Intel uses -o2 or -o3 for Clear Linux packages, depending on which produces faster binaries. Worth checking out, if you want more performance.
Yeah, the problem is that you are relying on free contributors, these free contributors will get discouraged if your ideas can just be stolen by ChatGPT as their idea for a solution.
Google giveth K8s but also giveth Golang
Just for shiggles? No particular reason? Keep going. In response to Palestinians doing .... what?
Similarly, when the promo process rewards impact and influence on other engineers you get all the smart ambitious people making overengineered platforms, frameworks, and standards while no one competent or engaged is minding the actual end-user products.
Most embedded hardware has no easy way to send/restore core dumps if JTAG is disabled.

And even if it did, a good chunk of debugging involves running the system live in the target environment and looking at traces. Eg. "the device doesn't work properly when on the customers wifi network because their router responds to ARP requests too fast and we miss the response packet because we're still busy reconfiging the radio from TX mode into RX mode"
"This is where the first break of Enigma by an exclusively British team took place."

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.9971405,-0.7429412,2a,25.5y,...

Lol, some memorial.
You don't win by cargoculting ideas.
Or under any realistic payment system that end users would want to use

No offense, but micropayments have to be the most often suggested non-solution to any problem since the "402 Payment required" code was added to the HTTP spec
I have been hoping that isomorphic JS would take over PHP for a long time. Sadly these complexity gurus have been sucking the oxygen out of the room for over a decade now. I think it's the corporate "front end developers" who caused these problems. Almost like an envy of full stack or back end developers doing the "real engineering". Which drove the desire to have "real engineering" problems on the front end.
> The main benefit is really just the fact that once you claim a link, you don't need to claim another and you can change the destination that link leads to as many times as you want - we need this a lot and don't want to pay a monthly fee for this.

It's good that you found a way to scratch your personal itch.

As a prospective user, I'm concerned with the idea that a random third party who created the shorturl can change the links I consume to point to arbitrary destinations right from under my nose. I expect that my links are constant, and at most the destination does the redirecting. I feel that the potential to misuse this as an attack vector is too great for this to be an option.
Hmmm...I don't find this compelling, at all.

Perhaps the notions are so pervasive that they were integrated into my mind and way of thinking early on due to the initial popularity of this writing?
you can do one better than that

go back and edit any of your highly ranked/voted posts and insert subtle errors

or if that's too much hard work: replace with nonsensical gibberish

literally poisoning the well
Because publishing requires contacts and resources. Small developers don't have either.
What happens when you get a leak in a random seal in the chamber deep under ground, does all the compressed air escape? How do you ensure such a large reservoir stays air-tight for 20 years?
What are they. I’ve done a lot of research and the most I could find is a slightly increased cardiovascular risk. It has been a few years since I looked into it so maybe there is new research I’m missing. Maybe you’re referring to a nicotine overdose which is a separate discussion.
> you're already mentally invested in learning the tool, know it works, and remembered it.

Not really. In my experience, I learned only a tiny percentage of the tool -- like how to run a noise reduction filter and nothing else. I know that one thing worked the one time for that one file, but not for other files with different types of noise. And I didn't even remember it -- I googled "noise reduction software" again, discovered the top link was purple, and only then remembered I'd already installed it on my system and forgotten its name. I started it up and it says I can't use it anymore because the trial expired.

I might have a whole bunch of clips I need to noise reduce now, maybe it's going to become a regular thing at this point, but I can only test with competitors' software now...
Another counterargument: is the opportunity for individuals to improve family living standards increasing or decreasing since the 1950's?

I'll spare you the exhaustive list from education, housing, infrastructure, and medical service access. It is not, kids are no longer getting stable jobs, their own homes, or starting families until later in life.

In my opinion, creating financial securities out of communities just turned most cities into theme-park economies. Fun, but innately unsustainable for all visitors except the board.

Personally, I have found the contradictions formed between macroeconomics and microeconomics fascinating. Primarily because tragedy can be profitable in a global context, but destructive from a personal perspective.

"Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?" (Phillip C. McGraw)
I don't think there would be any guarantees, as it is a free product. So, it would be based on things like the availability of patches upstream (kernel.org), and how many people need the fix, as well as how much effort you are contributing to the fix (be it testing, willing to replicate the issue, etc...)
It could atleast have a time limit
Good luck remembering which is which :)
He regrets it because he got caught violating the no AI answers policy, not because he did it.